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“آخ، چیست آدمی، این نیمه خدای ستوده! آیا طاقتش درست آن زمانی طی نمی شود که بیش از همه به آن احتیاج دارد؟ و آیا آن وقتی که بر بال شادی اوج می گیرد، یا در غرقاب غم فرو می رود، در این هر دو حس درست زمانی باز نمی ماند و به شهود و آگاهی دلگیر و سرد خود باز پس رانده نمی شود که شوق گم شدن در این سرشاری بی انتها در جانش دویده است؟”

PassionClassic LiteratureGoetheEighteenth Centuryادبیات کلاسیشور و شوققرن هجدهمگوته
Book:The Sorrows of Young Werther
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“I should be inclined, therefore, as I have hinted before, to consider the world and this life as the mighty process of God, not for the trial, but for the creation and formation of mind, a process necessary to awaken inert, chaotic matter into spirit, to sublimate the dust of the earth into soul, to elicit an ethereal spark from the clod of clay. And in this view of the subject, the various impressions and excitements which man receives through life may be considered as the forming hand of his Creator, acting by general laws, and awakening his sluggish existence, by the animating touches of the Divinity, into a capacity of superior enjoyment. The original sin of man is the torpor and corruption of the chaotic matter in which he may be said to be born.”

LifeSoulGodHappinessPurposeReligionSinLazinessEighteenth Century
Author:Thomas Robert Malthus
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“I have decided, before the embers of my life dwindle anymore, to embark on a grand tour. With rumblings of revolution and troubled times to come, the old ways are passing on. I have had enough of sitting here twiddling with a quill writing my wretched memoirs. Twelve volumes. Mostly lies but amusing, nevertheless. It is time to return to life.”

FictionWittySatiricalPolitically IncorrectEighteenth Century
Book:Casanova and the Devil's Doorbell
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“Then humming thrice, he assumed a most ridiculous solemnity of aspect, and entered into a learned investigation of the nature of stink...The French were pleased with the putrid effluvia of animal food; and so were the Hottentots in Africa, and the Savages in Greenland; and that the Negroes on the coast of Senegal would not touch fish till it was rotten; strong presumptions in favour of what is generally called stink, as those nations are in a state of nature, undebauched by luxury, unseduced by whim and caprice: that he had reason to believe the stercoraceous flavour, condemned by prejudice as a stink, was, in fact, most agreeable to the organs of smelling; for, that every person who pretended to nauseate the smell of another's excretions, snuffed up his own with particular complacency...”

English LiteratureEpistolaryEighteenth CenturyScatological
Book:The expedition of Humphry Clinker
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“Even in the early phases of tenant reduction, during the seventeenth century, many of the dispossessed appear to have maintained a foothold in the local area, often by turning to spinning and other activity associated with sheep farming - a more formal division of production and gendering of the working population. However, by the 1710s, the decade when the Buccleuchs began efforts to rationalise their 'South Country' operations, as many as two thirds of the Ettrick and Yarrow valley farms were under a single tenancy. By the 1790s, it was nine in ten. It is across this period that widespread dispossession seems to have turned into widespread clearance across the Southern Uplands in general, and Ettrick and Yarrow in particular. Tenants compelled to flit at the end of a tack would take with them wives, children, elderly relatives and unrelated servants, each removal amounting to a substantial dent to the population.”

ClearanceEighteenth CenturyDispossessionEttrick ForestScotts Of BuccleuchSheep FarmingSouthern Uplands
Book:Scottish Literary Review, Autumn/Winter 2025
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“Disgusting foods, as Madame de Pompadour discovered, do not arouse the senses. They only dull them. Seduction, as you know by now, for women starts with the ears and for men starts with the eyes and for both, travels directly to the stomach. Some say you need sweet murmurings in the ears, but I say laughter, intrigue and delicacies are more powerful.”

FunnyHistoryWittySatiricalEuropean HistoryHistorical NovelEighteenth CenturyCasanova Humour
Book:Casanova and the Devil's Doorbell
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